The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . surroundit enclose also a casematod battery of heavy guns. On the crest of the hill behindare the ruins of Gallants Bower Fort. Xearly opposite is Kingswear Castle, whichclaims an even more remote origin; and crowning the hill at whose base it liesare some remains of Fort Ridley, which, like Gallants Bower, was wrested from theParliamentarians by Prince j\Iaurice, both strongholds, however, being afterwardsstormed by Fairfax. The harbour, though a fine, broad sheet of water, is almostlandloc
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . surroundit enclose also a casematod battery of heavy guns. On the crest of the hill behindare the ruins of Gallants Bower Fort. Xearly opposite is Kingswear Castle, whichclaims an even more remote origin; and crowning the hill at whose base it liesare some remains of Fort Ridley, which, like Gallants Bower, was wrested from theParliamentarians by Prince j\Iaurice, both strongholds, however, being afterwardsstormed by Fairfax. The harbour, though a fine, broad sheet of water, is almostlandlocked, and the entrance to it is through a strait channel known as The Jaw-bones, which in more primitive days tlian these was protected by a strong chainstretching from one bank to the other. Of the two remaining streams that rise in the morasses around Cranmere Pool,the Tavy runs a course which, though not long, is remarkable for the grandeur andthe richness of its scenery. Did space permit, one would be glad to follow itfrom its ppaty spring under Great Kneeset Tor, through the grand defile known. MOLTH 01 TI[H MAUT. as Tavy Cleave, on between Peter Tavy and Mary Tavy to Tavistock, with itsstatue of Drake, who was born hard by, and its associations with the author of the 46 RIVEES OF GREAT BEITATN. [ThfTaw. Pastorals: thence past Bucklaiul Abbey, rieli in niomories of Sir Francis and ofthe Cistercian monks from whom the neighbouring viUage of Buckland 31onachorinngets its distinctive appeUation, and so to Tavys conttuence with th(> Tanuir. Pleasantalso would it be to trace its principal tributary, the Walkham, down itsromantic vallev, nor less so to track the Lid from its source, a few miles aboveLidford, through its magnificent gorge, and onwards to its union with the sands are fast running out. and ^\•e must pass on to sketch ver}- rapidlythe cai-eer of the Taw as it flows iirst north-eastwards, then north-westwards, tomeet the Torridge in Barnstaple Bay. in
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